“On Monday morning, the sun rose over Boston, the sun glistened off the Statehouse dome… Runners laced up their shoes and set out on a 26.2-mile test of determination and grit and the human spirit.” Hundreds of thousands of people...

If the economy is cooling, consumers aren’t noticing. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index climbed to minus 29.2 in the week ended April 14, the highest since January 2008, from minus 34 in the prior period. The jump was the biggest...

President Barack Obama will speak at a memorial service for the victims of the April 15 bombing in Boston, seeking to calm a jittery public while the bomber is still at large. The Senate Armed Services Committee today in Washington hears...

That’s how many votes a proposal to expand gun background checks received as it was rejected by the Senate yesterday. The proposal, by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, fell short of the 60 needed...

As they vow to continue their fight, backers of the expanded firearm background-check measure derailed in the Senate today — beginning with President Barack Obama — are pounding away at poll results showing that 90 percent of American voters support the...

There goes Joe being Joe. With the Senate set to begin a series of contentious votes on amendments to a gun control bill, including a plan for background checks that was all that was left of the White House’s gun-safety...

As officials continue to pursue suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, the highest-profile act of terror in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon in 2001, individuals are taking to the Internet in efforts to identify potential...

The House Ways and Means Committee is widely viewed as an A-list panel because of an expansive jurisdiction that includes tax, trade and health policy. Another advantage: committee members can also raise substantial campaign funds from the many companies that...

Harrison Ford, a star of “Star Wars,” flies his own single-engine planes and a twin-engine jet. So he knows a little something about those air traffic control towers — the ones under threat of closure as the Federal Aviation Administration...

If you want to own a house, it may pay to be less educated. Homeownership rates among 30-year-olds with student debt plunged in 2012 more than for those without, according to an analysis published today by researchers at the New...